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New York and 11 other states are suing the Environmental Protection Agency for violating the federal Clean Air Act by refusing to issue standards for controlling global warming pollution emissions from oil refineries, Reuters reports.

The other states and cities in the suit are California, Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, and Washington D.C.

The suit seeks to force the EPA to control oil refinery emissions of greenhouse pollution, which the suit says amounts to about 15 percent of U.S. industrial emissions of CO2, and to order the agency to adopt the standards.